70 online databases that define our planet                                                                                    7 December 2010

AAF Sports Library                                                                                                                 28 March 2004
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles digitisation project; sports research articles & publications free including Olympic review, 1901-2001 & Official  olympic reports since 1896.

AESIS: Australian Earth Sciences Information Service ( folded 2001)                             26 February 2004
AusGeoRef subscription bibliographic geoscience database; Australian literature since 1840; (2003) American Geological Institute & Geoscience Australia cooperated to improve coverage of Australian publications in GeoRef for subscription to organizations & companies; now expanded to include references drawn from AESIS, Australia's Geoscience, Minerals & Petroleum Database, a complete index to available Australian information written by an Australian or about Australia(including Antarctic regions), or Papua New Guinea, 1851 - 2001; AusGeoRef includes 170000+  bibliographic references- 78000+ incorporated from AESIS including references to mining, mineral processing, mineral resources, & environmental protection- journal literature, meeting proceedings & abstracts, books, reports & maps updated weekly; 30 day trial, US$90/yr for individuals;

AgeLine(AARP) - AARP's Thesaurus of Aging Terminology                                                  22 July 2005
abstracts & bibliographic citations since1978; books, journal & magazine articles, research  reports, videos from gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center; articles from 600 magazines & journals; full-text article ordering directly from Infotrieve;  

AgeSource Worldwide                                                                                                              22 July 2005
AARP subscription database of Web-accessible world resources; databases, libraries, clearinghouses, directories & portals; host or sponsor, contact information,  description, subjects covered, price or fees; not well composed for Firefox access;

Amazon                                                                                                                                     3 April 2004
books in print categories such as abridged or large print(binding:), by publication date(pubdate:), language(language:); title:bankruptcy & keywords:www ; publisher:west & title:"real property"; title:research & pubdate:before 3-2003 & pubdate:after 3-2002;  Text Stats informs about book's readability, complexity & value per number of words. Readability calculations use Fog Index, Flesch Index & Flesch-Kincaid Index. Complexity calculations indicate complexity of words & sentence structure in text of a book(complex=3+ syllables)

American Numismatic Society Collection Database                                                                        3 March 2011
800000 coins & related objects of international caliber, rivalled only by largest state collections of Europe; large study collections & rarities, particularly strong in Ancient Greek, notable Hellenistic section; Roman Republican period issues; exceptional Islamic breadth & depth; Far Eastern, particularly Chinese; Latin American, developed over past 40 years; US Colonial series & Federal issues, as well as private coinages; search by clickable map;

Art Museums: a collection of searchable databases                                                                     7 July 2006

AusGeoRef subscription bibliographic geoscience database                                                           9 March 2008
Australian literature since 1840. American Geological Institute & Geoscience Australia began cooperating in 2003 to improve coverage of Australian publications in GeoRef for subscription to organizations & companies, & expanded to include references from AESIS, Australia's Geoscience, Minerals & Petroleum Database, a complete index to all available Australian information written by an Australian or about Australia or Papua New Guinea, 1851 - 2001; AusGeoRef now includes 170000+ bibliographic references on Australia - 74000+ incorporated from AESIS - journal literature, meeting proceedings & abstracts, books, reports & maps updated weekly; 30 day trial, US$90/yr for individuals; (Nov 09) accessible to Australians on subscription via National Library of Australia's eResources;

AUSTLANG online Australian Indigenous languages database                                                      27 March 2009
In addition to 250 languages, AUSTLANG lists their dialects  – over 1000 – & information about each language & dialect; alternative names of languages & spellings of language names, history of language classification, level of endangerment of languages, history of speaker numbers, available documentation, researchers & language programs; links to other web sites & databases on Australian Indigenous languages; search for Australian Indigenous languages by language name, place name or by navigating through Google Maps;

Australasian Digital Theses Program Database                                                                              3 June 2006
metadata repository of 150000 Australian PhD & Masters theses; 5000+ fulltext online, otherwise link to home institutions; New Zealand theses to be added;

Australasian Heritage Software Database                                                                                10 February 2012
Flinders University online database of computer software written in Australia & New Zealand will include everything from computer games to banking & defence software;

Australian [& New Zealand] Art Auction Records Online                                                             25 January 2006
$25/m, $120/yr subscription; Australian coverage from 1973, NZ from 1988;

Australian Exporters & Manufacturers database  (eResources, National Library of Australia)            4 February 2011
“Australian Exporters is a guide to exporting Australian companies & the products & services that they sell. Australian Exporters has been published since 1964 & has combined with Australian Manufacturers to expand the content of the database. Includes details on 47000+ companies & 56000+ executive names. Previously known as the print publication Kompass Australia , published from 1970-2009 “

BASE - The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine   20m documents from 1218 providers                28 April 2009
Identification & selection of high-quality scientific content repositories; Contact & negotiations with content providers(universities, libraries, commercial content providers); Data aggregation, data pre-processing & data-processing of internationally distributed & highly heterogeneous resources; Data production (e.g. German enlightment, JADE); Delivering indexes in standardised formats(XML) for platform-independent re-use by other providers; Integration of BASE within meta search environments(e.g. SISIS-Elektra); Providing additional content in local OPAC environments; academic fulltext archives accessible through international Open Archive Initiative(OAI). Most documents freely accessible & searchable by metadata or fulltext; ; search the repository using Eurovoc thesaurus query expansion into 21 languages & synonyms; Advanced search enriches the search form by filters like the Content Source, year / date published and document type: Books; Article, Journals; Reports, Papers, Lectures; Theses; Reviews; Audio; Videos; Images; Maps; Software; Primary Data; Sheet Music; limit your search on meta data fields Entire Document, Author, Title, Subject Headings, Publisher, (Part of) URL; browsing functionality through the content of repository based on Dewey Decimal Classification(DDC) of the documents(About 100,000 documents have been assigned with a DDC);  download search plug ins for IE & FireFox; Base supports OSDD(Open Search Description Document) so you can add this search engine to your browser;

Blackwell-Synergy                                                                                                                       27 January 2007
search fulltext of 1m scholarly articles, subscribe for fulltext access; dual level classification of journals; CSA Illustrata will improve access; review;

British Library Direct                                                                                                                    15 June 2005
pay-as-you-go; 9m articles from 20000 international research journals of past 5 years; 150000 new entries/month; keyword search & restrict to items available for download; advanced search - field & date-restricted; results contain citation- title, author, journal, date, some abstracts; ISSN/ISBN, publisher, & copyright fee;  register for paid downloads; others delivered "within as little as 2 hours"; British Newspapers 1800-1900 2m+ pages of C19 newspapers; 50 titles searchable by keyword; get a few articles free, 24-hour pass (up to 100 articles) for £6.99, 7-day pass (up to 200 articles) for £9.99; search by keyword, date, & publication; advanced search by title, section, publication frequency, or language;

British Library Research Archive                                                                                                  27 November 2005
database of papers and materials by researchers not affiliated to an academic institution; may not have been peer-reviewed; papers from British Library conferences

British Newspapers 1800-1900 2m+ pages of C19 newspapers                                                    19 September 2009
50 titles searchable by keyword; get a few articles free, 24-hour pass(up to 100 articles) for £6.99, 7-day pass(up to 200 articles) for £9.99; search by keyword, date, & publication; advanced search by title, section, publication frequency, or language; browse complete articles from Penny Illustrated Paper & The Graphic free of charge; thematic essays includes access to relevant articles from newspapers of the day;

British Periodicals(ProQuest Information & Learning)                                                              May 2006
landmark British texts from four centuries in digital collections of facsimile page images & searchable fulltext for 500 British periodicals published from late C17 to early C20 - 6m pages; by subscription;

Canadian Feature Film Database based on printed Canadian Feature Film Index begun in 1972    27 June 2011
establishes a list of 4300+ Canadian feature from published information up to 2009; principal credits of every Canadian feature film from 1913 to 2009;

Canmore database(Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland)                     14 August 2009
280000 Scottish archaeological & architecture sites with some interactive features; keyword & advanced search by location, site type, ID, online collections only...; online items & those available in search room ; images, maps, manuscripts, etc; RCAHMS Flickr stream;

CCINFO databases  free searching, view records by subscription                                                17 November 2002

CEIC Data                                                                                                                                  5 April 2007
1m+ Asian time series data; Specialized China database of 137213+ series; Sector, Corporate & Economic specific databases for trend monitoring, in-depth analysis & economic forecasting

ChemSpider                                                                                                                               4 May 2007
free database of 10m chemical structures & related properties, access to property prediction algorithms; Results show structure, empirical formula, molecular weight, monoisotopic mass, H bond donors; chemists open forum for discussion & sharing; all structure data (for nearly 18m compounds) to PubChem; 16 Aug 09 relaunched by Royal Society of Chemistry(RSC) as dedicated, structure-centric community for chemists with fast access to unique chemical entities, resources & information & collaboration within global community;

ChemSynthesis freely accessible database of chemicals                                                                  9 November 2008
synthesis references & physical properties such as melting point, boiling point & density for 40000+ compounds  & 45000+ synthesis references;

Classical Music Databases & Web Resources                                                                                7 July 2006

Classical Works Knowledge Base(CWKB) relational database (Cornell U) protoytpe                     4 September 2010
link citations of ancient texts to online versions(Ancient is about C8 BC to mid-C8 AD); works by parsing OpenURL links(used in libraries to help retrieve scholarly articles); click on citation to send OpenURL metadata to link resolver; fully-functional version in 2012/13; See also Google Books: 500 volumes of Ancient Greek & Latin, dating from C16 through C19;

Communication & Information in the Knowledge Society: a gateway                                              14 February 2002
access point to 120 bibliographic, referral (directories, projects, etc.) & factual databases produced by UNESCO; Information Sources gives access to 57 online & offline information services of Organization's Headquarter & its field offices; organized by categories reflecting UNESCO's main areas of action education, science, culture,communication & information; databases with online versions of official UNESCO documents, UNESCO photo bank & UNESCO glossaries & thesauri;  portals for specific thematic areas maintained by UNESCO, such as Libraries Portal, Archives Portal, Portal of the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) & World Poetry Directory

Communist International(Comintern) Archives                                                                                3 December 2006
Russian State Archives for Social & Political History(RGASPI) in Moscow has digitized 1m pages of documents from 59 sub-series selected by Comintern historians worldwide. INCOMKA focused on commissions, secretariats, & departments under Executive Committee of Comintern; Library of Congress converted personal names from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet & translated descriptors(keywords/subject headings) from Russian to English; descriptors link to digital images displayed in Archidoc system; digitized materials may be viewed at dedicated terminal in European Reading Room of Library of Congress or subscription to Comintern Electronic Archives; 

Company360(D&B Australia): Australia’s top 50000 companies                                                5 May 2010
Australian private company information with financial statements, corporate structures & key personnel details; Company financial reports, Financial ratios & analysis, Structure & shareholders - including linkage to parent companies, subsidiaries & affiliates, Board & executive profiles, Company overviews, ASX data(listed companies), Latest news insight from Australia's leading business journalists - Alan Kohler, Robert Gottliebsen & Stephen Bartholomeusz; free trial; pdf company reports can be downloaded but not marketing lists, financials or corporate structures;1 Sept 2010: D&B Australia & New Zealand including Consumer Credit Bureau & Company360 businesses acquired by D&B Corporation;

Comparison of LexisLibrary & Westlaw UK                                                                                 15 July 2010

CompletePlanet                                                                                                                              23 June 2006
70000+dynamically searchable databases & specialty search engines; web pages & documents that cant be crawled or indexed; 

Congoo   See also Yahoo! Search Subscriptions                                                                             25 August 2006
download Congoo NetPass toolbar which collects name & email address to track downloads; publishers allow users to download limited number(5 - 15, depending on publisher)/month free; uses Yahoo! search, retrieves no more than 8 articles from fee-based sources; 

Cornucopia online database of 6000+ collections in UK museums, galleries, archives & libraries      5 August 2004

Credo Reference (formerly xrefer)                                                                                                 23 June 2007
customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians;full-text, aggregated content for major subject from world publishers of reference; (23 April 2009) founded as Xrefer in 1999, a free open access rival to Wikipedia. Relaunched 2003 w. 410
titles from 62 publishers libraries can select titles ($40,000 value for several thousands by subscription to get all titles) access to any of a possible 3,205,731 entries, from 414 titles & 63 publishers (23/4/2009);

Cultural Landscapes(US Cultural Landscapes Foundation)                                                                14 November 2010
Provide a sense of place & identity;map our relationship with the land over time; part of our national heritage & of our lives; Search by pioneer of landscape design, design type, landscape style, region, state;

Customary International Humanitarian Law Database: Rules; Practice; Sources                                   18 August 2010
International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC) launches online database of customary International Humanitarian Law; Treaties; Military manuals; National legislatuion; National case law; Other national pracice; UN; International organizarions; International & mixed judicial & quasi judicial bodies; International conferences; International Red Cross & ed Crescent Movement;

D&B Australia & New Zealand acquired by D&B Corporation                                                    1 Sepembert 2010            
including Consumer Credit Bureau & Company360 businesses      

Database & directory of newspaper digitization projects & digitized newspapers worldwide          13 November 2010      

Database Finding Tools                                                                                                                    17 October 2002

Database of Adverse Drug Reactions                                                                                         27 May 2005
Canadian marketed pharmaceuticals, biologics(blood products, therapeutic & diagnostic vaccines), natural health products, radiopharmaceuticals; download files; search by date(1965-2005); updated quarterly; product or active ingredient search, how product was involved(in course of treatment, interacting with food or alcohol, etc), age or gender of patient, outcome(death, recovery with or without sequelae(pathological condition resulting from a disease);

Database of Genomic Structural Variation(dbVar) National Institutes of Health(NIH)                    5 October 2010
developed by National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI) division of National Library of Medicine(NLM) at NIH to help track large-scale variations in DNA discovered in healthy individuals as well as those affected with disorders such as autism & cancer & to collect data on a diverse array of organisms, including agriculturally important plants & livestock;

Database of Poisonous Snakes(WHO)                                                                                            11 May 2010
worldwide poisonous snakes & available venom antidotes; search by region(dropdown menus) or snake name (common name or species; dropdown menus & keyword); search for antivenom products(product or manufacturer); image of the snake & scientific information, e regions where active, available antivenoms; larger PDF snake image downloadable;

Database Publishing: Federated Search & Content Aggregation Are The Future                        31 January 2008

Database tutorials(Flinders University of South Australia)                                                          29 August 2006

DeepPeep search engine specializing in Web forms                                                                     28 March 2009
tracks 13000 forms across 7 domains to discover entry points to content in Deep Web(aka Hidden Web) sites including online databases & Web services; e.g., forms related to used cars, applications that access hidden-Web information like forms in job domain that contain salary, or discover common attribute names in a domain; Search by keyword or domains Auto, Airfare, Biology, Book, Hotel, Job, Rental; 28 October 2009 launches rental service for research articles(scientific, technical & medical): rent (but not print) articles with pay-as-you-go account, US$0.99 to keep an article for one day, unlimited account for US$19.99/m, US$9.99/m intermediate account to download 20 articles & keep for up to 7 days; trial account here; PayPal payments only;

DialogClassic Web(tm) comprehensive online information source; Subscription databases          15 July 2001

Dialog Corporation Library[Subscription databases]                                                                 15 July 2001
documentation for Dialog Corporation's products & services, incl.Search Essentials, Product Aids, & Newsletters; 9 December 2003 launch of Dialog Application Programming Interface(API) enables extensive content collection & renowned search engine to integrate transparently into Web sites, enterprise portals, corporate intranets & extranets, software applications & other interactive services; for Web site developers, software programmers, enterprise information managers & others to integrate slices of 14 terabytes+ of premium content - continuously updated electronic warehouse of news, business intelligence, current & archived journal articles, patents & research across industries & topics(Source: Press release); (30 March 2006) DialogLink 5 researchers can conduct chemical structure search in multiple drug pipeline files simultaneously; ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters(5 September 2008); Big 3 comparative review - Nexis, Factiva and Dialog; 6 Jan 2011: ProQuest Dialog platform includes automatic text translation of search results, left hand truncation, iterative filtering & generation of date histograms, searches across publications & resources(federated search) including Embase, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, SciSearch, IMS R&D Focus;

Dialog Portals                                                                                                                           2 November 2003
suite of web-based content modules deliver business-critical news & intelligence to information portals tailored for a department, division or enterprise- or personalized to meet needs of individuals; 24 Sept 2011: ProQuest Dialog for novice & experienced searchers; 

Dialog Select vast database collection, precision searching; 50000+ publications & documents;  15 July 2001

Dialog's Open Access program                                                                                                  6 December 2002
fill-in-the-blank forms for business information, patents, medical research, technology topics,  pharmaceutical news; prompts for appropriate information -words in title for articles; company name searching a directory database; patent number for intellectual property research; government agency name for government regulations; Articles are pricey -- $4 for most industry publications & $3.40 for newspaper articles

DiscoverEd(Creative Commons)search engine of open educational resources beta                      28 July 2009
CC or other licensed for use material assembled from third-party repositories like Open Courseware Consortium & National Science Digital Library; Results include title, brief summary, education level & sometimes information about usage license; Some  data fields have magnifying glasses next to them to click on for a refined list of results; RSS feed;

Dow Jones Interactive                                                                                                               15 July 2001
customizable, enterprise-wide business news & research content from top national newspapers, Dow Jones; Reuters newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports & web sites.

Early American Imprints I & II                                                                                                     21 February 2010
fulltext databases of American history & literature through the colonial period to 1819; definitive source of information about every aspect of life in 17th-& 18th-century America, including foreign affairs & diplomacy, music & literature, religion & witchcraft; Access  to registered readers onsite at the National Library of Australia via their eResources portal;

EarthTrends(World Resources Institute) database focus on environmental, social, & economic trends  15 July 2006

EBSCO Publishing Login Page                                                                                                   10 December 2001
Masterfile (general periodicals fulltext); Australian/New Zealand Reference Centre; Health Source Plus; Animals; Clinical Reference Systems. Enter Patron ID for your organisation, then select Login to proceed; now uses Grokker visual search; EBSCO’s exclusive content & an open letter from Gale Cengage: EBSCO will now be the SOLE aggregator for such titles as Harvard Business Review, Time, Time for Kids, History Today, People, People Espanol, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, US News & World Report, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fortune,, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Money, Discover, National Review, New Republic, Science, New Scientist; 18 Jan 2011: EBSCO Discovery Service(EDS) provides fast, simple access to all of their library’s fulltext content, including electronic & print resources; 11 Jun 2011: EBSCO bought Wilson & made a division of EBSCO Publishing; 22 Jun 2011: EBSCO Publishing & H.W. Wilson announce merger;

Economist Intelligence Unit(EIU) subscription services                                                     9 May 2007
ViewsWire, RiskWire, Industry Briefings, FT News daily-updates EIU publications & daily events; economic, political, business analysis on 203 countries; RiskWire covers operational risks in 150 markets; Industry Briefings cover 8 industries with data, key, news & key players; FT News feed from Financial Times & FT.com; Country Reports examine & explain issues: political scene, economic policy, domestic economy & foreign trade, concise 18-24 month forecasts complementing analysis; reports on 200+ countries.

EEVL                                                                                                                                        19 November 2004
Computing database searches 60 freely available fulltext ejournals in computing; math database searches 28; Engineering searches 160; search the content of all 250 freely available full text ejournals

Electronic Resources Australia(ERA)                                                                                          1 June 2007
national licensing scheme to provide Australians easy access to trusted subscription information online sources via their library;

elibrary                                                                                                                                       24 December 2003
28m+ documents/2600 sources over 20 years; newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, directories, transcripts from television & radio stations (including cable television companies); U.S.$20/m; $100/yr

Elsevier's EMBASE backfile digitised                                                                                          17 December 2007
Biomedical & pharmacological citations & abstracts - 11m+ records from med & drug lit post 1974 (formerly Excerpta Medica Abstracts Journals) 1947 -1973 archived in electronic format accessible via Ovid, Dialog & DataStar platforms for release in summer 2008, or by direct licensing from Elsevier;

Encyclopedia of Life database for 1.8m species named & known on this planet                            21 May 2007
steering committee of senior officers from Harvard U, Smithsonian Institution, Field Museum, Marine Biological Laboratory, Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, Missouri Botanical Garden, MacArthur & Sloan Foundations; Atlas of Living Australia is joining;

Energy Citations Database(ECD)                                                                                               6 October 2001
bibliographic records, disciplines of interest to US Dept of Energy(DOE)-chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science & related disciplines; report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, & patents; documents from DOE & prior agencies, Energy Research & Development Administration(ERDA) & Atomic Energy Commission(AEC); keyword search or advanced search for citations from 1948; dissertations, patents, papers, articles, books; link to e-document,  research  & sponsoring organizatios; 20 Aug 2009: 2.6m citations & 221000+ fulltext documents in chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science; bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, & patents;

ERA(Electronic Resources Australia)                                                                                             21 June 2007
Australian library consortium subscriptions to Australian News & Business Information: - ABI/INFORM® Global, Asian Business & Reference™, Australia & New Zealand Newsstand; General Reference: Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre™, Oxford Reference Online Premium, World Book Online Reference Center; Health Information: Consumer Health Complete™, Health & Wellness Resource Center, Health Reference Center Academic

ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library                                                                                                 26 September 2001
Educational Resources Information Center(ERIC) Clearinghouse on Assessment & Evaluation project of National Library of Education, US Department of Education directed by Department of Measurement, Statistics, & Evaluation at University of Maryland in College Park links to some of best fulltext books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles & papers on Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation & learning theory

EzTextiles.com digital library of royalty-free, production-ready textile designs                                 18 June 2010
apparel, textile, home fashion, accessories & other textile-related industries; 25m+ fully editable woven plaids & stripes, prints, & knit designs. Other patterns and designs such as vintage, graphics, photography, & textures forthcoming; tools to apply patterns & designs on any of 500+ provided sketches & product photos to visualize & evaluate; Subscribers can also visualize ET patterns & designs on their own sketches or photos by uploading their custom images to a secure folder in the system; OK for most PC & Mac internet browsers;

f2 News Store search Fairfax publications & ASX company announcements from 1990 free; pay for fulltext

Factiva -  Big 3 comparative review - Nexis, Factiva and Dialog;                                                        6 December 2002
$1000/m flat-fee subscription; $69 annual subscription users search at no charge & pay $2.95/article; company profiles, investment analysts' reports & corporate credit reports, are priced between $5 & $15; (October 2003)pay as you go subscription for individuals & small businesses offers access to Search & Track areas of Factiva.com; Factiva Search within Microsoft Office 2003 Now Available!; Aug 2004 - Australian Publisher Fairfax Signs Exclusive with Factiva; (Nov 2004) fulltext content from Fairfax metro daily newspapers including Sydney Morning Herald 1986-, Age 1991-, Sunday Age, Sun Herald & Australian Financial Review 1982-, Business Review Weekly, Personal investor, Shares, CFO & MIS; Fairfax no longer available thru LexisNexis & Dialog but 3rd parties who resell Fairfax content are Factiva, AAP, ProQuest, Newsbank, EBSCO, Westlaw, Fairfax News Store; (Jan 2005) FAST Data Search 360™ across multiple applications; Factiva Insight helps companies monitor issues & discover emerging opportunities & threats from mainstream media, radio & television transcripts & consumer-generated content, including blogs & message boards; (19 Jan 06) Factiva. Search 2.0 results visualization & interactive graphical navigation for a search experience similar to popular web search engines; F. free home access for National Library of Australia's eResources subscribers; 8 Apr 2011: Factiva: the Intelligence Engine(Dow Jones) top media outlets, trade & consumer publications, Web sites—28500+ global news & information sources from 200 countries in 25 languages; sources include Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald & Le Monde; automated translation converts articles from 8 native languages into English; expand its reach with Factiva Reader copyrighted Factiva news & information, Dow Jones Companies & Executives enhanced company, executive & industry information, in-depth profiles, access to reports & expert analysis, Dow Jones Client Solutions custom installations of Factiva.com & Factiva content into executive dashboards, employee portals, SharePoint sites or intranet applications; 9 Mar 2012: addition of  leading financial daily newspaper.Australian Financial Review  in 2012 with access to fulltext & archived articles dating since September 1987;

Factiva Publications Library incl. Dow Jones & Reuters                                                                    21 September 2001
articles from publications dating back 15 years. News archive from Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters company; business publications, global newspapers & newswires; search by keyword, company name or company symbol. Search & headlines are free, articles $2.95;

Financial Access Database International Monetary Fund (IMF)                                                2 July 2010
results from its inaugural Financial Access Survey designed to underpin research into provision of consumer financial services worldwide; allows public access to financial access indicators & accompanying metadata developed through Access to Finance Project with financial support from government of Netherlands; key indicators of geographic & demographic outreach of financial services, as well as underlying data; reach of financial services measured by bank branch network, availability of automated teller machines, & 4 key financial instruments: deposits, loans, debt securities issued,  insurance; supporting policymakers & researchers to strengthen understanding of determinants & implications of financial access & usage; identify knowledge gaps & appropriate policies for broadening financial access, & monitoring the effectiveness of policies over time;

Financial Soundness Indicators(FSIs) database of indicators of financial sector soundness             8 August 2009
25+ member countries, ranging from regulatory capital adequacy ratios to real estate prices, assist in analyzing soundness of financial institutions as a sector & assessing conditions of counterpart corporate & household sectors of relevant markets. FSIs complement other assessments such as early warning indicators & macroeconomic vulnerability exercises;

FindArticles.com                                                                                                                              15 July 2001
free access from Gale Group; fulltext delivery by email; .phrase search; articles back to 1998 from 300+ magazines & journals; now LookSmart's FindArticles ; free access; 3.5m articles from 700+publications,1998-; browse by publication or by subject; (June 2004) advanced search allows sort by date & search in a specified date range; 2.5m+ articles from 500+ publications; specify particular periodicals to search, topics, date range between 1950 & 2005 & number of pages in article (more or less than up to tenpages); sort results by relevance or date; Looksmart redesigned FindArticles.com; 5.5m articles from 1000 publications since 1984; 30 - 40% of titles premium priced; some fee sources are HighBeam, KeepMedia, Goliath (Thomson/Gale).Find magazines by topic, by name, featured magazines & articles by topic; Topical categories: Arts & Entertainment, Automotive, Business & Finance, Computers & Technology, Health & Fitness, Home & Garden, News & Society, Reference & Education, Sports; Search free; Advanced search: in title or body or both; select specific publications; specify date range for published date; sort results by relevance, date, length, or name of publication; Option for Furl members to save copy of article;

FishBase                                                                                                                                   5 October 2002
free relational database for research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists; International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Food & Agriculture Organization of UN; frequent updates; Life History Tool calculating whole-body nitrogen & crude protein 115 content from wet weight; mapping tool allows zooming, point identification, different environmental layers, env.boundaries & env. forecasting for FishBase point data.

Freebase(Metaweb Technologies) open database of the world’s information (FAQ)                    27 December 2009
semantic database of everything, accessible via free text search, & via MQL(Metaweb Query Language - essentially JSON with wildcards). Using it you can construct any query against Freebase & the result will be the same query with answers filled in; built by & for the community to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into websites; covers millions of topics in hundreds of categories from large open data sets like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, & SEC archives; structured information on popular topics, including movies, music, people & locations reconciled & freely available via open API; supplemented by a global community of users adding structured information on everything from philosophy to European railway stations to the chemical properties of food ingredients; 

Free, Fee-Based & Value-Added Information Services                                                              June 2004

FreeFullText.com links, 7000+ scholarly periodicals; some content free(some free registration)      7 May 2004

Freely Accessible Databases for Public                                                                                     31 May 2003

Fulltext Sources Online (Information Today Inc.)                                                                       12 July 2002
17000+ fulltext newspapers, journals, magazines, newsletters, newswires, transcripts, from 25+ aggregators; search free, register for fulltext

Gale part of Cengage Learning                                                                                                  2 February 2010
acquired HighBeam Library & Encyclopedia.com in Dec 2008 expanding user base beyond libraries to general web users; 1 February 2010 acquisition of Questia Media, Inc. provider of information & educational resources to high school & college students through its Questia.com & QuestiaSchool.com products. Questia's premium subscription service gives users access to 76000+ books from 300+ publishers in humanities & social sciences & 3m articles from journals, magazines, & newspapers;

GEM (EINS - European Information Network Services)                                                            28 October2003
priced scientific,technical & medical databases; company & industry information; contract for pay-as-you-go access across databases; Service Providers are: CAS, CINECA, DIMDI, FIZ Karlsruhe, LexisNexis;

Global Ethics Observatory(UNESCO)                                                                                        7 February 2006
worldwide ethics portal; direct, free access to 4 databases covering fields of bioethics, environmental ethics, science ethics & technology ethics; 

GloPAD(Global Performing Arts Database)                                                                                23 September 2006
multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, & complex media objects - productions, performers, creators; 4500+ records ;  keyword or phrase searches; Search Tips page suggested searches - piece titles, people, genre, location, objects & activities; browse by Performing Arts Type, Performing Arts Group, Place, Person, Piece , Production; Video clips in QuickTime format; Cortona VRML Client browser plug-in to view 3D objects ; Chinese, German, Japanese & Russian as well as English; .

Gold Rush                                                                                                                                   19 September 2001
electronic journals found in aggregations(e.g. EBSCOhost, Gale InfoTrac); lists serials embedded within aggregations or databases; find best databases on a specific topic or from a specific journal; link to search a database; tools to help librarians manage subscriptions

GoshMe (Beta) will locate searchable databases from 2500+                                                       1 January 2007
lists each Search Engine categorized by area of interest with a brief description of content &  users can filter results into categories;

HighBeam Research(formerly Alacritude)                                                                                  April 2004
aims for gap between free search & professional research services; Plan to merge 3 services: elibrary online subscription archive of 35m documents from 3000+ sources;US $99.95/yr; encyclopedia.com - Columbia U. Encycl. online; Researchville customisable metasearch tool combining powerful free tools with moderately priced subscription service, free access to abstracts of fee-based content; share articles with members & non-members by RSS/blog; 1.5m fulltext articles free for individual researchers; Table of Contents email alerts; Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has acquired HighBeam Research, Inc., producer of the award-winning HighBeam Research Library & online reference site Encyclopedia.com;

HighWire Press - Free Online Fulltext Articles                                                                             5 April 2008
1880373 free fulltext articles & 4755845 total articles; 13 sites with free trial periods, 44 completely free sites, 248 with free back issues, 1047 pay per view; science, technology, & medicine journals; back issues, free trial; Jan 09 5m articles; Search all HW journals; 4 February 2012: SAGE journals online entire online journal collection now available in a mobile-optimized format with HighWire Press’ Mobile Web Interface, 640+ SAGE journal sites via iPhones, Androids or other smartphones automatically redirected; 

Historical Newspapers Online                                                                                                    28 May 2010
Links to historical US newspapers available online at no cost listed by state with dates of coverage for each paper; See ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers for digisations of historic international papers;

ICON Database of International Newspapers                                                                              5 May 2008
free resource for reliable information on 25000+ newspapers published outside the US includes bibliographic descriptions of titles as well as specific information on institutions’ holdings; central locus for information on international newspaper collections available in North American libraries & selected libraries outside North America, providing a tool for resource discovery, access, & collection management;

IEEE/IEE Electronic Library(IEL)                                                                                              30 May 2006
subscription Xplore interface provides fulltext access to IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, IEE journals & conferences; interdisciplinary with emphasis in electrical engineering & computer science; 1.2 m+ documents from 800000+ authors; complete backfile to 1988 with selected content back to 1950; updated weekly & utilizes INSPEC bibliographic records; 126 IEEE & 21 IEE journal titles, 1300 IEEE active & selected archival standards, 600+ IEEE & 27 IEE conference titles;  participating in Google CrossRef pilot project;

IEEE Member Digital Library                                                                                                     January 2003
300000+ technical articles from 120 IEEE periodicals & 1800 IEEE conference proceedings; read up to 25 articles & papers/m from IEEE journals, magazines, transactions & conference proceedings; US$35/m on member's credit card;  subscribers must be IEEE members; agreement with Google will give non-members simple search access to database contents after  September2003

ILANET(Information Libraries Access NETwork)                                                                      10 April 2002
business unit of State Library of New South Wales that provides information professionals (libraries, organisations or individuals) pay-as-you-go access to a wide range of commercial databases & document delivery services through its website ilanetweb.

Imperial War Museum Collections On-line Database                                                                   11 September 2004
150000+ records relating to items in their holdings, 3000 fully available; photographs, works of art, soundbites, & visual artifacts; thematic categories include War in the Air, Truth & Propagand, & Burial & Remembrance

Information Services: General Business Internet Resources                                                            4 January 2003

Informed Librarian Online                                                                                                            5 March 2004
Beta testing free-text search for words or combinations of words in journal pages linked to; to be a fully searchable database of library literature.

Infotrac(Gale Group fulltext databases)                                                                                         10 December 2001
Expanded Academic ASAP; Literature Resource Center; Custom Newspaper Database. 

Ingenta gateway to research (formerly Uncover)                                                                            21 June 2002
academic & professional; 5400+ fulltext online publications; 26000+ publications; 12m+ articles from 1997; full text 4500+ titles by 140 partner publishers;  individual subscribers, or individuals within institutions that subscribe, access fulltext free. Non-subscribers pay-per- view, electronic, fax or Ariel delivery; Articles requiring author or publisher copyright permission appear in database with complete citation; (April 2005) Ingentaconnect subscribe or pay-for-view fulltext;  algorithmic linking syntax for Ingentaconnect content; search or browse 6100 online & 28500 fax & Ariel delivered publications; export search results in EndNote, Procite or RefWorks formats filters for major citation manager systems Ingenta, UnCover or BIDS formats; RSS feed; (March 2008) digitisation of 80% of Brill’s content for IngentaConnect; article recommendation feature for associated articles; Struggle for scholarly search with Google Scholar & Scopus;

International Architecture Database                                                                                           27 February 2005
clearinghouse for architectural projects(built & unrealized) since 1996; 13000+ projects, most C20 & C21; browse by name, location, or keyword for  building type, primary architect, location, years of construction, external links, photographs, & plans; lists of keywords

International Labor Organization Databases Accessible on the Web                                            7 July 2006
Global Compact - Country information on human rights, labour standards, & environmental protection; APPLIS database on international labour standards;Conditions of Work & Employment - legal information worldwide -  maternity protection, minimum wages, working time; e.quality@work -  gender equality laws, policies & programmes, ILO standards & national legislation, policies, practices & institutional arrangements by governments, unions, public & private sector; ILO Conventions & ILO Recommendations; QVILIS database on complaints & violations of trade union rights; TRIBLEX  ILO Administrative Tribunal cases

Internets.com large, classified listing of databases & search engines                                              4 August 2002

Internet Search Environment Number(ISEN) database of databases                                           9 December 2009
foundation of a portal that comprehensively catalogs Internet databases to create more effective& efficient Internet search experiences; marketplace for information owners & vendors; auditing tool for organizations & individuals to find refined & structured resources; proposed library standard for organizing databases; We would assign over 1m databases ISEN in its first year; 5m backlog;  Life Science databases to be cataloged by life science librarians, law resources by law librarians, etc;

Intute                                                                                                                                          30 December 2006
database allows access to subject-specific & cross-subject resources evaluated for quality & relevance; 14 Aug 2010: Intute reflections at end of era;

Invisible-web.net - Searchable databases & specialized search engines                                        28 October 2001
selective directory of 1000+ specialized databases-companion to The Invisible Web: Finding Hidden Internet Resources Search Engines Can't See by Chris Sherman & Gary Price. Good descriptions, direct links to search form pages; lacks a search function; Exploring the Academic Invisible Web; 

ITI InfoCentral                                                                                                                           25 February 2005
fulltext of information industry  journal articles published by Information Today, Inc - Information Today, Online, Searcher, Computers in Libraries & EContent (formerly Database); September 1987 to present. Articles available in PDF on a  pay-per-view basis.

JSTOR archive                                                                                                                           16 April 2004
Accessible through affiliation with participating institution (US or International) or individual account with participating publisher. Access on-campus is determined either by IP addresses provided by participating sites, or via ATHENS for affiliates of participating UK & Ireland sites; available at Uni of SA;

Key Indicators Database(Pew Global Attitudes Project)                                                               15 August 2009
public opinion trends in 55 countries on topics ranging from attitudes toward US to people's assessments of their own lives, globalization, democratization, extremism; searched by keyword, topic or country; display in map, table or chart formats; findings are from 8 surveys conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project from 2002-2009 among a total of more than 200000 respondents;

LexiBot.com - the Internet's Most Powerful Search Tool                                                              5 September 2001
BrightPlanet version 2.0 of its LexiBot Software; search in simple text, natural language or Boolean queries; advanced user settings automatically identify deep web sites; users pick from 200 pre-configured information channels or configure their own; refine results by terms, sources & documents; powerful scoring & results options further quality search queries. 30 day free trial offer (Sept 2001)

LexisNexis AlaCarte!                                                                                                                  10 December 2004
for small businesses & independent professionals; free search, pay for documents received; register; (Feb 2006)LexisNexis toolbar for Internet Explorer 6.0+ - set up query before going online; conduct searches in Google, MSN Search or Wikipedia; different interfaces designed to focus on different uses of research system; 8 Apr 2011: LexisNexis introduces semantic search with Visualize & Compare tool to compare & analyze result sets or lists of patents, providing a visual representation;

Library of Congress eResources See also National Library of Australia eResources                            12 October 2011
Licensed and recommended free databases, indexing and abstracting services, and full-text reference resources

Linked Movie Data Base for information about films, actors, etc                                                        21 June 2010

LookSmart's FindArticles                                                                                                            26 February 2004
free search, read 3.5m. articles from 700+ publications 1998-; browse by publication & subject

Low-Cost Access to High-End Information                                                                                 25 August 2006

MagPortal.com                                                                                                                           2 November 2001
Magazine Article Search Engine, Directory, Free Data Feeds; articles from free magazines;  Search for fulltext freely available online or browse by subject 

Manuals Online database consists of 300000+ manuals, 5000 brands, & 2m+ members                  12 August 2009
User manuals for appliances, automotive, cameras, electronics, music, power tools; inventory your manuals & solutions; Store detailed information about products; Receive personalized updates about products in your inventory;

mediafinder (US & Canada) search by keyword for free; paid subscription offers more options    23 January 2003

Mobile access to databases                                                                                                            4 February 2012
SAGE journals online entire online journal collection now available in a mobile-optimized format with HighWire Press’ Mobile Web Interface, 640+ SAGE journal sites via iPhones, Androids or other smartphones automatically redirected;

Modeller's Database(Australian Bureau of Statistics publication 1364.0.15.003, Sep 2010)               28 January 2011
410 quarterly time series constructed from NIF(National Income Forecasting) & TRYM(Treasury Macroeconomic Model ) econometric models, some published elsewhere by ABS & others specifically constructed for TRYM & NIF models;

MSDS plus CHEMINFO(WEB version) Free searches; fulltext by subscription                           21 November 2002

National Archaeological Database(US)                                                                                       22 November 2008
National Park Service & partners' 350000+ reports on archaeological investigations over the past decades; standard or expanded result for their search query; standard formats citation or record in style of  American Antiquity journal, expanded result includes location of report & name of lead agency that sponsored the report.

National Introduced Marine Pest Information System(NIMPIS)                                                   10 August 2009
80 introduced species in Australian waters, & species considered likely to be future introductions; aim to alert stakeholders when a new pest arrives & and minimise the spread of established marine pests; 250+ introduced marine plants & animals have hitchhiked to Australian waters on recreational & commercial ships, taking over habitats from native species, changing coastal areas & damaging the nation’s fishing, aquaculture & tourism industries; basic search by species name(taxonomic or common name); advance search by taxonomic group, invasive status in Australia, distribution or by CAAB(Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota), ITIS(Integrated Taxonomic Information System) or CRIMP(Centre for Research on Introduced Marine Pests) number;

Neogene of the Old World Database of Fossil Mammals (NOW)                                                8 July 2006
international advisory board; Eurasian Miocene to Pleistocene land mammal taxa & localities with emphasis on European Miocene & Pliocene; locality table & species table linked by locality-species correlation table; data conventions section about proper use of taxonomic fields; browsing;  publications;

Nerac.com  all industrial sectors; technical information specialists                                                 11 June 2002
international engineering, scientific, patent & business databases as well as professional contacts to provide individualized answers & alerts; biology & medicine, business & management, chemistry engineering, law & government, technology

Nereus non-commercial databases for economics research                                                               23 October 2009

Newspaper Licensing Agency(NLA)                                                                                            5 June 2009
subscription database of clippings from 140 national & regional UK  newspaper titles; ClipSearch access to 11m+ articles is expanding at 480000 articles/m; Flax search solution allows search saves & automatic alerts; restricts access to articles under legal embargo;

Nexis - Big 3 comparative review - Nexis, Factiva and Dialog                                                       8 January 2009

NLM Databases & Electronic Resources See also: Retired Databases                                          30 June 2007

New York Times complete article archive from September 1851 to December 1995                    19 December 2003
free; search full text, author, or headline; specify date range or include advertisements & other listings in search; listings include title, date, & author of article; an article costs $2.99 (25-article pack costs $1.05 & you have 180 days to access); access to NYT,1851- from Proquest; (21 Sept 07) Freely-available archives between 1851-1922, & content from 1922..Archival content from 1923-1986 for purchase in single or ten-article packs; Mining the NY Times Archives; (Feb 09) NYT exposes 2.8m articles(1981-) in new API: web sites can add dynamic links for articles, or excerpts, to pages on their own sites; Article Skimmer streamlined interface scans top headlines in every section of the Times; NYT to publish index as Linked Data;

Nonprofit Collaboration Database(Foundation Center)                                                                11 June 2010
collection of cases & best practices for collaboration by nonprofits; basic search by methods of collaboration, advanced search by keyword, collaboration type, geographic location, reasons to collaborate, number of participating organizations, etc; Results presented in a table that includes name of organization, city & state, type of collaboration, & collaboration focus area; look for PDF of collaboration’s narrative;

OJOSE: Online JOurnal Search Engine                                                                                          4 September 2004
free scientific search in different databases using only 1 search field; download or buy journals, articles, research reports, books, etc. in 40 databases

Online Research Services                                                                                                           2 August 2005
Factiva,  LexisNexis, Dialog  et al contain fulltext articles from trade & professional magazines, specialized newsletters, newspapers & other publications worldwide for subscribers; See Free, Fee-Based & Value-Added Information Services; 

Ovid(Wolters Kluwer Health) subscription databases & resources                                            9 June 2010
information & business intelligence for students, professionals & institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health & pharmacy. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical & drug reference tools & textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  Facts & Comparisons®; & electronic information providers, such as Ovid®, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® & ProVation® Medical; International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA);

Papers Past C19 New Zealand newspapers & periodicals                                                              25 September 2007
From New Zealand Advertiser & Bay of Islands Gazette in Northland to Mataura Ensign in Southland; started with 300000 digitised pages of NZ newspapers in Alexander Turnbull Library; now has 1.3m+ digitised pages from 52 publications; browse in Maori;

PDFDatabase.com                                                                                                                        12 January 2009

Pew Global Attitudes Project Key Indicators Database                                                                   8 August 2009
explore public opinion trends in 55 countries via interactive map, table, or chart formats

Plant Breeders Rights - Database (Australia)                                                                                   17 June 2005

Plant List Database                                                                                                                    30 December 2010
Collaboration between Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden; library of plant names for conservationists, drug designers & agriculture researchers; 1.25m names for plants, ranging from essential food crops such as wheat, rice & corn to garden roses & exotic jungle ferns; links to published research; 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank, 298900 accepted species names; 620 plant families, 16167 plant genera; Version 1, released in December 2010, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns & their allies) & Bryophytes (mosses & liverworts) but not algae or fungi; provides Accepted Latin name for most species, links to all Synonyms, & includes Unresolved names;

Popline world's largest database on reproductive health                                                                 7 May 2009
citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, & unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, & related health issues; Search or browse by topic; Maintained by INFO Project, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs; funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID);

PriceMiner database                                                                                                                      27 January 2006
8 years pricing data for art, antiques & collectibles sold online, pictures and descriptions. GoAntiques collects data itself, also from eBay & Tias.com; Search/sort criteria include price range, category type, sale date, data source & currency (US dollars); .graphs & charts include average price, number of items included in  average, price range- highest to lowest, & current estimate based on today’s market conditions with a confidence factor; US $9.95/m, $99/yr;

ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters                                                                            5 September 2008
15 Jan 2010: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences(IBSS) added to ProQuest; Udini™ ProQuest cloud service bundles 150m peer-reviewed & trade journal articles, dissertations, international newswires, newspapers, magazines from 15000 journals in a cloud-based workflow management tool designed for individual users without access to research libraries, no subscription required;               

ProQuest Historical Newspapers program                                                                                 26 May 2003
Christian Science Monitor, New York Times(1851-1999), Wall Street Journal(1889-1985) & Washington Post(1871-1987) in database for educational institutions & libraries worldwide; Every word searchable; viewed/printed in pdf; each article indexed for ProQuest's controlled vocabulary; 2.6m+ article pages ;  Los Angeles Times(1881-1984) & Chicago Tribune(1849-1984) to come; (14 October 2005) ProQuest Information & Learning digitizing 6m pages of British humanities periodicals from C17 to early C20/160 periodicals; 500 in two years; ProQuest: 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers; 18 Oct 2011: expands & now has...historic American Jewish & regional newspapers from 1841 covering regions such as Boston, Ohio valley & New York City;

Quarterly Public Sector Debt Database(World Bank & International Monetary Fund, IMF)           9 December 2010
timely dissemination in standard formats of public sector debt statistics for 30 emerging market & developing countries to be updated every 3 months; includes country & cross-country tables, & enables users to query & extract data, by country, group of countries, & specific public debt components; Public Sector Debt Database guide for compilers & users(IMF);

Questia Online Library                                                                                                                 21 November 2003
24/7; books & journal articles in humanities & social sciences, magazine & newspaper articles; search fulltext of books & journal articles; browse cover to cover ; US$99.95 annual subscription gets subscription to GuruNet as well; See also KeepMedia database of 200000+ articles from 10+ years ago/150+ magazines, newspapers & more, with unlimited online access, updated daily  US$59.40/yr; 2 Feb 2010: Gale acquires Questia;

RAND®                                                                                                                                     7 June 2002
research studies; nonprofit institution improves policy & decision making through research & analysis; child policy, civil & criminal justice, education, environment & energy, health, international policy, labor markets, national security, population & regional studies, science & technology, social welfare, transportation. Many documents viewed online or downloaded free; RAND Europe based in Cambridge, UK conducts research & analysis on challenges facing European countries; publications viewed alphabetically, chronologically, or by topic;

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature                                                                                       3 February 2003
retrospective content(since 1901 debut) searchable online via WilsonWeb

SAGE journals online                                                                                                                    4 February 2012
entire online journal collection now available in a mobile-optimized format with HighWire Press’ Mobile Web Interface;  640+ SAGE journal sites via iPhones, Androids or other smartphones automatically redirected

Science Databases                                                                                                                     15 June 2002
largest, fastest, most recognized global link to on-line resources including news feeds, archives, libraries, research databases, catalogs, & statistical data organized in 22 subjects including astronomy, chemistry, energy, geography, geology, oceanography, & physics; 

ScienceDirect(Elsevier)                                                                                                                31 August 2001
8m articles; Individual users may print or save; Other areas accessed by subscription or licence; (5 May 2006) China Collection series of prestigious Chinese science, technology & medical journals never before disseminated outside of China; growing; Free for review until end of 2006; abstracts & bibliographic records are open access; pay for PDF fulltext; new release  reviewed, Aug. 2006; largest publisher of scholarly journals; freely available 'social bookmarking' site 2Collab; Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS & ScienceDirect(1800 journals, 150 book series & 1.3m+ records) collections from 2006 now indexed in WorldCat.org with content from GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC & British Library Inside Serials; 22 July 2010: Starting with 2 Elsevier chemistry journals, authors are invited to submit structure(MOL) files of their key compounds alongside articles to add compound identifiers – International Chemical Identifier(InChI) keys* – & increase discoverability of article & key compounds on ScienceDirect & search engines; structure files are used to visually display all key compounds of article in a scrollable list with additional functionality such as links to Reaxys, Elsevier’s web-based chemistry database, & Google; Aug 2010: 10m articles, partnerships with NextBio & PubMed, FAST Enterprise Search Platform & QUOSA Document Download Platform, link to other publishers via CrossRef;  

Scirus                                                                                                                                         23 December 2006
250m+ science pages; fulltext NASA reports, CogPrints pre- & postprints, preprints from Chemistry & Mathematics Preprint Servers; 17m+ proprietary records not found with generic search engines; ranking & relevance with intelligent query rewrites via FAST's AlltheWeb engine; news feed of latest science headlines by Lexis Nexis Web Publisher News Database; access to fulltext articles from professional journals on pay-per-document basis; Review (Dec'06);

SciVerse platform integrates ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciTopics & targeted Web content            19 January 2011
2500 journals & 11000 books with 1/2m additions/year; digitized versions of pre-1995 journal content; Goes as far back as 1823 issues of The Lancet; Combining Elsevier products with SciVerse Hub & community developed applications;

Scopus abstracting & indexing database                                                                                      4 November 2004
Elsevier; 14000 peer-reviewed titles from 4000+ international publishers; multidisciplinary records since mid 1960’s; Abstracts since 1966; fulltext links; 167m scientific web pages; annual subscription for access to complete, unabridged database to everyone at an institution; Update on Coverage;  Review (Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Winter 2006); citation searching for 1996+; 27m documents; Jacso Reviews Scopus; Affiliation Identifier disambiguates naming of institutions, companies or sponsor organizations, for affiliation searching (e.g. identify an institution’s output to make resource allocation); Australian Research Council selects Scopus for evaluation of Australian research landscape (press release); Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS & ScienceDirect(1800 journals, 150 book series & 1.3m+ records) collections from 2006 now indexed in WorldCat.org with content from GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC & British Library Inside Serials;

Search British newspapers, 1800 – 1900(British Library)                                                            10 July 2009
49 London, national & regional titles; View complete articles from Penny Illustrated Paper & Graphic free; 24-hour pass: £6.99 for up to 100 articles, 7-day pass: 200 article views for £9.99;

searchDatabase.com: The Database Specific Search Engine presented by TechTarget.com           1 August 2001
Formerly Database Central.com thousands of database resources, news, jobs, etc; keep up with emerging technologies such as DAS, SAN, & NAS

Searching Fee-based Services on a Budget  (SearchDay December 4, 2002 - Number 413)      6 December 2002
Professional researcher Mary Ellen Bates explains how to search LexisNexis, Dialog & Factiva using reasonably priced pay-as-you-go options.

Search Systems 14243+ free searchable public record databases including approx 40  from Australia  23 April 2003

Silobreaker   Update                                                                                                                     25 August 2009
next generation information service processing a range of content, automatically indexing & filtering the stream, & making information available in dossiers; search service for news & current affairs; global issues, science, technology, energy & business from news sources, blogs, multimedia, & other news media worldwide; free search service, subscription-based enterprise services, embeddable widgets & software solutions for corporate & government customers; review; Silobreaker Australia; widgets now released to bloggers & web authors to embed into sites, licensed for use;

Spire Project: Commercial Databases                                                                                          14 September 2001

Structurae: International Database & Gallery of Structures   Australia & Oceania page                        4 October 2010
structural engineering, architecture or construction through time worldwide from time of  pyramids in Egypt & Roman construction, to Romanesque & Gothic churches, Industrial Revolution & beyond; mostly with bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, stadiums, towers, etc;
Name; Structural type; Function; Construction method; Geographic location; Year of completion; browse Recently added, Recently modified & Recently illustrated;

Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices                                                                            28 November 2007

TechXtra                                                                                                                                     1 June 2006
free fulltext content of eprints, technical reports, theses, articles, news items, job announcements &  links to vendors for pay-per-view; Cross database searching(federated or metasearch) of 25 databases, 4m+ records - Australian Research Repositories Online to World, arXive(eprint archive in computer science, maths & related subjects), CiteSeer(research articles in computer science), Directory of Open Access Journals, ePrints UK(selected open archives in UK), COPAC(union catalogue from Consortium of University Research Libraries), National Engineering Education Delivery System(digital library of learning resources), NASA Technical Reports(12 NASA technical report series); Job Announcements; Industry News; Discovery Guides; Recent Advances in Manufacturing (database of bibliographic information for manufacturing & related areas, covering items in 500+ niche & mainstream journals & magazines, details of books, videos, & conference proceedings); harvests data using standard protocols such as Z39.50 & OAI-PMH; TechXtra & PerX (subject resource discovery across engineering repositories) added to MetaLib Central KnowledgeBase of cross-searchable resources (2 April 2007);

theinfo.org for people with large datasets                                                                                       1 March 2008
exchange tips & tricks, develop & share tools, integrate projects;

Thomson Reuters (formerly Thomson Scientific)                                                                            20 May 2008
information based solutions for academic, government, corporate & pharma R&D professionals at forefront of markets; authoritative content with innovative technologies that assist with discovery, analysis, product development & distribution; ResearcherID.com web environment digital calling card for personal homepage, CV or institutional website links to personal workspace automatically updating citation data, user generated tags & keywords, professional info shared/kept for personal monitoring, personal profile management;  acquired financial services, media, academic, & corporate markets with Reuters, April 2008; Thomson Reuters' Calais semantic markup API enables developers to automatically create metadata for use with Yahoo!'s open search platform, Search Monkey; ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters(5 September 2008); Calais 4.0 released: linked data meets the commercial web - toolkit enables publishers to incorporate semantic functionality, enabling them to categorize content as people, places, companies, facts, events, etc; connect to Linked Data web standard in Semantic Web community;

Time Magazine Archive  1985-                                                                                                    12 July 2002
Asian & European editions, covers gallery; pay to view articles after 2 weeks

TRIP Database   Talk with Jon Brassey, Oct 2009                                                                   5 May 2003
searches 55+ sites of high-quality medical information; direct, hyperlinked access to evidence-based material & articles from premier on-line journals such as BMJ, JAMA, NEJM; clinical search tool designed for health professionals to identify quality clinical evidence;

Trove(National Library of Australia) replaces free Libraries Australia service & other resources  24 February 2010
integrated access to 45m+ items from NLA's collaborative services & elsewhere; Metadata from Australian sources including Australian National Bibliographic Database containing location information from 1200+ Australian libraries; Picture Australia;
Australian Research Online; Music Australia; Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts; People Australia program including biographies & relationships from Australia Dancing, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australian Mines Atlas, Australian Women's Register, Collections Australia Network (CAN), Libraries Australia, Music Australia;  Overseas sources including, OAIster, PubMed Central, Project MUSE, NASA Technical Report Server, CiteBase, Nature Publishing Group, etc; Open Library - online public domain books; Hathi Trust - online public domain books; Wikipedia - keywords (tags) associated with books; Features access to National Bibliographic Database for checking holdings in Libraries Australia wide; Increased online content with access to fulltext online resources; free account for users to search for holdings in their preferred libraries, add comments & tags to resources, & (soon) save lists of favourite resources in their profiles; Improved search functionality with relevance ranking, facets for narrowing results & ability to search across multiple formats; 4 Nov 2010: 61 individual newspaper titles available with aim to make 115 available by July 2011; 1.5 – 2m  lines corrected by community each month & running total of lines of newspaper text corrected is 22.6m; Migration of Australian Newspapers (blue interface) into Trove newspapers zone: There is a standalone version of Australian Newspapers http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home(blue original interface) and a Trove version http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper(green header). In 2009 we received positive feedback from users on having the ability to search across other content at the same time as newspapers. Therefore a plan to migrate the Australian Newspapers fully into Trove was developed for completion in 2010. Users will still have the option to search across newspapers only in Trove. All work to replicate the functionality of the original blue Australian Newspapers service has now been completed in Trove(ongoing over last 6 months).  In addition the Trove newspapers zone has been enhanced based on user feedback & there are now 35 new features that will help newspaper users in Trove. A complete list of the new features available in Trove that are not available in the standalone version are here: http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/project_details/documents/ANDP_Differencesandsimilaritiesbetweenblueandgreen1Nov2010.pdf; The three most significant items are:  1. The ability to add newspaper articles into a list (public or private);  2. The RSS alerts for new content (articles, issues & titles);  3. The user forum to contact other users and discuss newspaper topics.  Soon an automatic re-direct will be in place on the standalone version of newspaper (blue) so that all newspaper users are directed into Trove. This will happen before the end of 2010 & a message will be posted closer to the time on the standalone interface. The blue standalone version will not be available in 2011; 4 Nov 2010: Climate history newspaper tagging project - sources in Trove show how weather events have affected society, with eye witness accounts of floods & bushfires, e.g. 1851 Black Thursday bushfires in Victoria; digital research tools for Trove Newspapers: harvester takes a query from Trove & works through it, saving details of all articles in a CSV file that you can open in a spreadsheet or import into a database or  save text contents & pdf versions of articles into a zip file; second tool works through query year by year, grabbing number of matching articles for that year & calculating proportion this represents of total number of articles, feed data generated to a graph program(gallery); unofficial API to newspapers database for developers; Trove newspapers translator for Zotero(in process);

True Query                                                                                                                                  6 August 2003
subscription access to fulltext articles from brand name publishers & professional journalists in technology industry; fuzzy search, wildcard searches & searching within fields; single user subscriptions at $1190+;  free trial

UCS Satellite Database(Union of Concerned Scientists)                                                                2 January 2005
downloadable Excel file of operational Earth satellites, updated quarterly; open-source information in format easily manipulated for research & analysis; 800+ satellites & their orbits; doesnt contain detailed information necessary to locate individual satellites; information about particular satellites, sets of satellites with a common characteristic, such as altitude or mission; sort or aggregate data; determine relative numbers of military & non-military satellites operated by US & other countries; 21 types of data for each satellite, including technical information(mass, power, launch date, expected lifetime) & orbit (apogee, perigee, inclination, & period), what satellite is used for, who owns, operates, & built the satellite;

Udini™ ProQuest cloud service - pay /article, /project or /month  150m articles, 12000 publications  8 May 2012
bundles peer-reviewed & trade journal articles, dissertations, international newswires, newspapers, magazines from thousands of publishers in a cloud-based workflow management tool designed for individual users without access to research libraries;

UK Companies & Directors Database                                                                                        5 July 2003
database of statutory and financial information on all registered UK companies and Directors; basic details free, purchase detailed reports; via ICC

UK Central Government Web Archive
UK Government websites archived from August 2003 by Internet Archive on behalf of National Archives of UK; 2500 UK Government websites; 51 websites representative of UK Government web domain selected to reflect overall functions of government; departments & agencies representative of each function ;  websites harvested at varying intervals-10 websites weekly, others 6-monthly

UK Statute Law Database(SLD)                                                                                                  23 December 2006
Department for Constitutional Affairs(DCA) historical database of 30000+ items of UK primary legislation; advanced search & navigation functions for primary legislation in force on 1 February 1991, primary & secondary legislation produced since; Chronological Index;

UNCTADstat(UN Conference on Trade & Developmen) - tEconomics, Trade, & Finance            21 October 2010
 free online database, entry point to UNCTAD's  repository of statistics, harmonizing & incorporating all UNCTAD's online statistical databases; International merchandise trade, including data breakdowns of exports & imports by partners & products; International trade in services; Economic trends; Foreign direct investment(FDI); External financial resources, including migrants' remittances, development assistance, external debt, & international reserves; Commodity prices, updated monthly; Population & labour force; Maritime transport;

UN Database of Declarations & Conventions contained in General Assembly Resolutions              23 December 2006
links to declarations, conventions & other instruments(see definition of terms) in resolutions of General Assembly or their annexes. Instruments not submitted for adoption by General Assembly, i.e. Rome Statute of International Criminal Court, are not included; sorting options:  by date; by subjects; list of declarations;  list of conventions & other instruments; linked access to document in all 6 UN official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian & Spanish. Resolutions in Arabic from 1957) from Official Document System of UN(ODS). Conventions titles link to their status from UN Treaty Section with information on place & date of adoption, entry into force, list of participants & relevant treaty action, such as date of signature, date of deposit of instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval, accession, or succession, as well as texts of declarations, reservations & objections;

UNdata:  updates several web-accessible databases                                                                            3 February 2011
United Nations Industrial Development Organization: UNIDO's INDSTAT4 2010 Database; World Tourism Organization: Tourism Data; Human Development Indices on UNdata; International Labour Organization: Tables on Youth Unemployment;

Union of International Associations(UIA)databases                                                                         23 September 2010
Freely accessible without any registration: World Problems - Issues, Global Strategies - Solutions, Human Development, Bibliography(issues), Human Values, Integrative Concepts, Patterns & Metaphors. Self-registration provides additional features, such as bookmarking, user statistics, etc; Subscription Databases: Yearbook of International Organizations Online: (International Organizations, Who's Who in International Organizations, Organizations Bibliography, & all the free databases); International Congress Calendar Online(including all the free databases); Transnational Associations Online(including all the free databases);  

University of Lethbridge Herbarium database of herbs                                                                    7 February 2012
Photos of 21000 plant specimens being digitized to go online complete with scientific name, location, collection time, phenology & habitat;

US News Archives on the Web                                                                                                     5 July 2002
links for each title include dates available & cost for fulltext; Searching free; links to non US newspapers archived on the web.

Virtual Technical Reports Center: E-Prints, Preprints & Technical  Reports on the Web                  25 January 2003
Institutions listed provide either fulltext reports, or searchable extended abstracts of technical reports on World Wide Web; updated monthly.

Visualisation tools for STM databases                                                                                     4 May 2006
Thomson Data Analyzer launched Nov. 2005 (Successor to Derwent Analytics)analyses information from Thomson Scientific databases including its patent databases, Web of Science/Web of Knowledge & can be adapted to analyse information from inhouse databases & Excel files. STN AnaVist from Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS) &  FIZ (Fachinformationszentrum) Karlsruhe which analyses information from CAS's CAplus database of scientific literature & patent information, USPATFULL & PCTFULL patent databases; Also offers interactive workspace to display data visualizations dynamically integrated, including cluster & contour maps, histograms, & co-occurrence matrices. Harmonization & standardisation of data prior to visualization using algorithms based on intellectual data analysis also included, & data grouping feature to minimise scattering of results by editing & customising data elements across databases

WHOLIS(World Health Organization(WHO) database)  WHO publications from 1948                28 March 2004
article & technical documents since 1985; search or browse by keyword & power search; results include author, title, publication year & location; Hyperlinked subject headings facilitate expanding a search; print capture copies search results to save, print or email

WikiAudio                                                                                                                                   8 June 2008
database of information pertaining to the art & science of anything audio or sound related; blog, post in forums; upload audio, video & other media;

WilsonWeb databases                                                                                                                 7 January 2003
JSTOR archive of 320+ important scholarly journals in 26 disciplines is accessible via WilsonWeb's WilsonLink service; (6 Jan 2006) Color Page Images; 11 Jun 2011: EBSCO bought Wilson & made a division of EBSCO Publishing; 22 June 2011: EBSCO Publishing & H.W. Wilson announce merger;

Wiretap electronic text archive                                                                                                     21 August 2002
probably single useful gopher resource remaining on Internet; Last change: 10 Dec 97 

Working Time Database searchable database of working time laws of 100+ countries                    21 October 2005
laws that protect heath & wellbeing of workers; facilitate balance between work & family life; ensure workers have adequate time to devote to responsibilities & interests; & prevent discrimination against part-time workers;

World Bank -- Global Preferential Trade Agreement Database(GPTAD)                                       3 February 2011
GPTAD provides information on preferential trade agreements(PTAs) worldide, including agreements that have not been notified to the World Trade Organization(WTO);

World of Words: International Collection of Children’s & Adolescent Literature                              4 September 2010
U of Arizona online a database of its collection of 30000+ non-US children’s books; keyword search, advanced search by ISBN, author, illustrator, & translator; browse by region, age, or genre;

World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity                                                                                     31 October 2005
links to the contents of Catholic Encyclopedia, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Smith's Bible Dictionary, Torrey's Topical Textbook, Elwell's Dictionary of Christian Theology, & Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of religious knowledge;

Yahoo! Search Subscriptions                                                                                                       30 July 2005
search  free, pay to read or download articles; search access-restricted content such as news & reference sites inaccessible to search engines: Consumer Reports; FT.com (60 days); Forrester Research; IEEE publications; New England Journal of Medicine; TheStreet.com; Wall Street Journal (30 days); uses Advanced Search option of Yahoo search engine; Boolean operators (AND, OR , NOT), phrase searching; search subset of content on subscription sites e.g. past 6 months content or small subset of publications available; links from search results page prompt for your subscriber ID & password or to purchase 1-time access ; NOT an adequate substitute for regular subscription to professional online service such as LexisNexis, Factiva or Dialog; current  business & news focus complements Google Scholar; See also Congoo;